Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 80 36 48
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 10.87% 8.13% 12.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.39% 27.48% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 26 41
10th Percentile £316 £474 £388
25th Percentile £400 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £516 £593
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -12.94% +3.13%
75th Percentile £590 £632 £675
90th Percentile £689 £719 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 247 131 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.56% 29.57% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 86 92
10th Percentile £303 £405 £389
25th Percentile £375 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £581
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -11.39% +5.68%
75th Percentile £538 £583 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.44% -3.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £24.25 £22.51
% change year-on-year +369.07% +7.73% +0.04%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +2 77 £497 -3.12% 29
Doncaster - 2 £300 - 8
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) CICS
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) AWS
2 41 (51.25%) GCP
3 16 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 15 (18.75%) Azure AKS
4 15 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (12.50%) SaaS
8 9 (11.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (7.50%) GitHub
11 4 (5.00%) Akamai
12 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
12 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
14 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudTrail
14 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) HTTP
2 3 (3.75%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.75%) VPN
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) LAN
3 2 (2.50%) SAN
3 2 (2.50%) VSAN
3 2 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (1.25%) Broadband
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.25%) DHCP
4 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.25%) Multicast
4 1 (1.25%) SSL
4 1 (1.25%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Metadata
4 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.25%) DataStage
6 1 (1.25%) DB2
6 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.25%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
1 13 (16.25%) JIRA
2 9 (11.25%) SoapUI
3 8 (10.00%) Postman
4 3 (3.75%) Git
4 3 (3.75%) GitLab
4 3 (3.75%) Selenium
5 2 (2.50%) JUnit
5 2 (2.50%) TestNG
6 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Law
5 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Police
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Analyst
2 14 (17.50%) Developer
3 9 (11.25%) Architect
3 9 (11.25%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) IT Support
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Angular Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Consultant
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) JSON
1 10 (12.50%) SAML
2 9 (11.25%) OAuth
3 8 (10.00%) OpenID
3 8 (10.00%) Regular Expression
4 7 (8.75%) Hugging Face
4 7 (8.75%) OpenCV
4 7 (8.75%) PyTorch
4 7 (8.75%) SpaCy
4 7 (8.75%) TensorFlow
5 6 (7.50%) OAuth2
5 6 (7.50%) REST
6 4 (5.00%) RESTful
7 3 (3.75%) LDAP
7 3 (3.75%) Middleware
7 3 (3.75%) XML
8 2 (2.50%) CSS
8 2 (2.50%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.50%) HTML
8 2 (2.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) CCTV
6 1 (1.25%) FMCG
6 1 (1.25%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) PDA
6 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.25%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.25%) Tandem
6 1 (1.25%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Android
3 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Solaris
3 2 (2.50%) zOS
4 1 (1.25%) CentOS
4 1 (1.25%) MVS
4 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) DevOps
2 27 (33.75%) CI/CD
3 26 (32.50%) Agile
4 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (16.25%) DevSecOps
8 11 (13.75%) Scrum
8 11 (13.75%) Security Testing
9 10 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 10 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
9 10 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 10 (12.50%) RBAC
10 9 (11.25%) Kanban
10 9 (11.25%) Migration
10 9 (11.25%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (10.00%) Software Testing
11 8 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
5 2 (2.50%) Bicep
5 2 (2.50%) Groovy
5 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) CISM
1 10 (12.50%) CISSP
1 10 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.75%) CEH
3 3 (3.75%) GIAC
3 3 (3.75%) GWAPT
3 3 (3.75%) SAP Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) CCSK
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) GDPR
1 8 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.75%) NIST
2 7 (8.75%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.50%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.75%) Docker
3 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.75%) KVM
6 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.50%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.25%) Ceph
7 1 (1.25%) NFS
7 1 (1.25%) QEMU
7 1 (1.25%) Snort
7 1 (1.25%) SRDF
7 1 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (30.00%) Terraform
3 13 (16.25%) Ansible
4 10 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.50%) Argo
6 2 (2.50%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.25%) Podman
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) F5
2 13 (16.25%) Google
3 8 (10.00%) Alibaba
3 8 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
3 8 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 8 (10.00%) Thycotic
4 7 (8.75%) Cisco
5 5 (6.25%) Databricks
6 4 (5.00%) Imperva
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle
6 4 (5.00%) SAP
6 4 (5.00%) VMware
7 3 (3.75%) NetApp
8 2 (2.50%) Delphix
8 2 (2.50%) EMC
8 2 (2.50%) IBM
8 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.25%) Pure Storage